Learning your Plant Hardiness Zone will help you choose plants that will grow well in your garden and avoid those that might not survive.

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Cumberland New USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map reflects warmer growing climates with increased accuracy Updated: Jun. 17, 2012, 9:19 a.m. | Published: Jun. 17, 2012, 8: ...

The USDA 2012 Plant Hardiness Zone Map. USDA The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map divides the United States and Canada into 13 zones, based on the average annual minimum winter temperature.

Most gardening catalogs that use hardiness zones in plant descriptions use the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which was updated in 2023; it’s a system ...

Connecticut has two hardiness zones each of which is divided into half zones; (6a,6b); (7a,7b), to better reflect the temperatures in the state over the past few decades.

The new Plant Hardiness Zone Map reveals that about half of the country shifted to the next warmer half zone, when compared to the previous map, compiled in 2012.

Plant for Zones 8a or 7b, plants that can survive a winter temperature of 5 F or 10 F. You'll have better odds of not having to replace that plant (i.e., buy it again) over the next decade.

RELATED: Wisconsin Plant Hardiness Zone changes; what it means for you Scientists also use the map for data in many research models, such as those modeling the spread of exotic weeds and insects.

In Winnipeg, the hardiness zone remains at zone 3b. Wait, what? If, as a gardener, you were half- expecting — even hoping — ...

The kind of plants you can grow have changed slightly in most regions of Canada according to the federal government’s latest ...